Sentences with phrase «escarpment rise»

Driving into the Drakensberg just the day before and seeing Southern Africa's highest escarpment rise up in sheer cliff's before us was jaw - droppingly beautiful and filled us with a sense of wonder mixed with a tinge of anxiety for we knew that one of the things we came here to achieve was summiting at least one of these impossibly tall peaks...

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Rising property values have transformed formerly derelict streets into well cared - for neighbourhoods, Conrad Zurini of ReMax Escarpment Realty said of the blue - collar industrial city locals affectionately call the Hammer.

This series of inland mountains along the eastern border of Lesotho in the west of KwaZulu Natal is divided in to the Little Berg and the main escarpment, which rises to well over 3 400 metres — an incredible view.

Mountain peaks rise in the north east of the province, providing escarpment plunges into the area known as the Lowveld.

Here, you'll be treated to a timeless spread of gorges, ridges and lofty escarpments — a bush - hiking paradise, though serious walkers should come between May and October, when temperatures are coolest; during the Australian summer the mercury rises above 40 °C.

The towering volcanic escarpments of the Sierra Giganta Mountains rising out of the sea create your backdrop.

The wind farm is situated on the Pembina Escarpment, which rises above the surrounding plains, exposing the turbines to the prevailing prairie winds.